In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.

Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.

In terms of form, all the projects interest me equally, although there are obviously large differences according to the scale and process of each project.

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.

I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'